Description:
Pollinators and Sustainable Initiatives Panel- Building Upon Community Science to advance efforts at the Community Level
NRPA is recruiting volunteers to serve on a 15 month (June 2021 – September 2022) project advisory panel, who will inform and help develop a NRPA resource to help park and recreation agencies build upon community science events, like our Parks for Pollinator BioBlitz, to engage their communities in sustainability initiatives like supporting native and pollinator habitat and build coalitions of advocates to support biodiversity.
The goal of this resource is to create a tool or resources that will advance native habitat and sustainability practices for communities that help to ensure healthy, resilient, and sustainable parks and communities centered in equity. This resource will not only focus on community engagement and coalition building, but also efforts agencies can advance internally to promote these efforts and build support at the municipal level.
Activities
• Participation in five, one and half to two-hour virtual convenings to set priorities, inform resource development, advise, test tools and resources, and network with like-minded professionals.
• Provide subject-matter expertise, oversight, and feedback, including review and input of strategies and resource (~five hours every month).
• Regularly report any relevant information that you receive at various conferences, training sessions or meetings that could further this research initiative.
• Support dissemination of the resource through magazine articles or blogs, webinar presentations, and/or meetings or calls as needed.
Qualifications
• Employee of a municipal park and recreation agency or an organization focused on advancing native habitat and pollinator protection at the community level.
• Has capacity to commit to the above activities between June 2021 – September 2022
• Understands the environmental and health benefits of ecologically balanced parks and the need for community support, as well as the importance to center this work in equity and community building
• Enthusiastic and willingness to collaborate with NRPA and like-minded professionals
A stipend of $800 will be provided to cover the panelist’s contributions, in addition to being recognized in the final tools and resources. To apply, please fill out the application above and if you have any questions please contact Michele White, Program Manager at mwhite@nrpa.org.
Timeline: Subject to change, but this will provide an overview of the schedule of work
June 2021
- Virtual Meeting- Introductions, Goals of the project, working styles- how we will collaborate, timeline and initial discussion of the framework.
- Email correspondence regarding strategy and content building for tool/resources framework
July-August 2021
- Email correspondence regarding strategy and content building for tool/resources framework
September 2021
-Virtual Meeting- working meeting on reviewing suggested content areas and refining of the framework
October 2021- January 2022
- Email correspondence regarding strategy and content building for tool/resources framework
February 2022
- Virtual Meeting- reviewing draft framework and start discussions what type of tools/resources the framework should take that would be most helpful to the field
March- May 2022
- Email correspondence regarding tool/resource creation and editing
June 2022
- Virtual Meeting – Final edits to resources/tools
July- August 2022
- Email correspondence regarding final edits, dissemination, and promotion
September 2022
-Virtual wrap up meeting